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Information Visualization: Features and Challenges in the Production of Data Stories

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Information visualization is a communicative discipline that has experienced a continuous growth and development through the centuries. From its origins and first vestiges in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the most up-to-date forms marked by the development of information technology, visual communication has been an effective tool. Furthermore, over the last few years its presence as a journalistic genre has been strengthened, especially with the emergence of new needs arising from the increasing availability of data. This chapter explores some of the challenges that information visualization has to face in our days, like the need to adapt the content to the particularities of different platforms and screens. The authors also address the particularities of interaction in these projects, one of their most salient features due to his usefulness in organizing and supporting storytelling.

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This article has been developed within the research project Digital Native Media in Spain: Storytelling Formats and Mobile Strategy (RTI2018-093346-B-C33), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain) and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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    Ana Figueiras

  2. Grupo de Investigación Novos Medios, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Ángel Vizoso

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Figueiras, A., Vizoso, Á. (2022). Information Visualization: Features and Challenges in the Production of Data Stories. In: Vázquez-Herrero, J., Silva-Rodríguez, A., Negreira-Rey, MC., Toural-Bran, C., López-García, X. (eds) Total Journalism. Studies in Big Data, vol 97. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88028-6_7

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